we are getting embargoed responses to the rebuttal from marco rubio. it has sort of become this whole -- everyone is anticipating what everyone is going to say, before it officially happens. host: we heard from our congressional guests hthat nothing will get done in the town until the politics of the sequester -- let us hear the president talking about a sequester. >> the proposals i put forward during fiscal cliff negotiations, in discussions with speaker boehner and others, are still very much on the table. i just want to repeat it -- the deals i put forward, the balanced approach of spending cuts and entitlement reform and tax reform and i put forward, are still on the table. i have offered sensible reforms to medicare and other entitlements. when health care proposals to achieve the same amount of savings by the beginning of the next decade as the reforms that have been proposed by the bipartisan bowles-simpson fiscal commission. host: who has the leverage, as we get closer to this march deadline for the sequestered? -- for the sequester? guest: it